Questions tagged [active-passive]

This tag is used in environments where one instance is active and the other is passive mode. When the active instance goes down the other one become active and serve users' requests and thus enable high availability to the application.

High availability clustering is a tool to minimize downtime and support continuous service when some system components fail.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster

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Active-Passive Jenkins Setup in Kubernetes

We are planning to setup Highly Available Jenkins setup in container platform using kubernetes. We are looking at setting up one Active master and another master in standby mode. Jenkins data volume is going to be stored in a global storage that is…
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Rabbitmq active/passive HA over WAN

I'm trying to provide disaster recovery between two data centers for a RabbitMQ. The secondary datacenter is passive until the primary DC goes down. Federation of queues is inappropriate because it wouldn't move messages until the consumers in the…
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How to have multi-region replication for SQS messages?

I have an Active-Passive multi region architecture on AWS. We have cross-region replication for our RDS and DynamoDB; however, I'm not sure what to do with our messages in SQS when we failover. Based on the documentation there isn't a built-in…
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How to run ansible playbook in active/passive cluster setup?

I have a need to run ansible on a bunch of servers which are active/passive clusters. So, I have an inventory file like [QA:children] QA_01_CLUSTER [QA_01_CLUSTER] ip-10-361-412-14 ip-10-361-412-30 So serv1qa01 and serv2qa01 could be…
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haproxy failover active-passive

i want to setup haproxy to switch to passive s2 after s1 fails but not to back to s1 when it gets healthy. i mean when switches to s2 if the s1 gets available, haproxy still send requests to s2 and s1 work as passive until failure of s1. haproxy…
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EDIT : how to make a service with active/passive option to choose only a master pod?

if i have this deployment file & its service : apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: nix labels: app: nix-app name: nix spec: replicas: 2 selector: matchLabels: app: nix-app name: nix template: …
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Nginx switches back to the first node after it comes back online

I am using Nginx as a failover cluster, where a service is given as an upstream. The service is running in both the nodes simultaneously and the Nginx is set up in third node which redirects to other nodes. When we switch off the service in one node…
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Active Passive system setup

I want to implement active passive setup for multiple microservices in a distributed system. We use hazelcast as the messaging layer between our services. Would like to understand the best way to do this. Can we achieve it using zookeeper or does…
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How does Passive EC2 instance work in case of active-passive failover?

I want to configure active-passive failover with Route-53 in which primary (Active) resource is available/running and in case of any failure, Passive instance should take over. I want to know how we need to configure Passive EC2 instance. I am…
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keep pcs resources always running on all hosts

Is there a way to configure resources with pcs command, that they will keep always up on all configured nodes? I'm asking this question because I could observe following behaviour in my 2 node setup: For example a two node setup with two resources,…
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How to setup Active/Passive HAproxy configuration for MySQL with automatic failover but not automatic failback

I want to set Master - Master replication in MySQL using HAproxy as Load Balancer. Using backup option for Master 2 helps to route traffic to Master 2 only when Master 1 is down, but as soon as Master 1 comes up, traffic is automatically routed to…